girls:
582 births since 2006
#5134 (10th percentile)
overall:
582 births since 2006
#7157 (7th percentile)
The name Aela is the #7,157 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 582 recorded births since 2006. This represents the 7.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,134 (10.2% percentile) for all time with 582 births since 2006.
Aela first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2006 (first recorded for girls in 2006).
For girls, Aela reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 5.7% percentile (ranked #893) with 34 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 34 births per million (ranked 5.7% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Aela is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #893 (5.7% percentile) with 34 births per million.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Aela".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Aela. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.9% confident that Aela is pronounced as AY-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is AH-luh, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like EY1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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